One in every eleven persons born in Mexico has gone to the U.S. The National Review reported that in 2014 $1.87 billion was spent on incarcerating illegal immigrant criminals….Now add hundreds of billions for welfare and remittances! MICHAEL BARGO, Jr…… for the AMERICAN THINKER.COM

Illegal alien who raped 13 year old
girl was deported 10 times

AT readers don't need
further proof that our border security is pathetic. But the case of Mexican
illegal alien Tomas Martinez-Maldonado is particularly galling because the
failure of the total breakdown of the criminal justice and immigration enforcement
systems which led Martinez-Maldonado to rape a 13 year old girl on a Greyhound
bus in Kansas.

Martinez-Maldonado was
deported 10 times and voluntarily left the country another 9 times. He was
prosecuted for illegal entry several times, serving several months in jail. But
somehow, his repeated offenses never made it to the district attorney, who
should have had him up on felony immigration charges. In fact, two of his
illegal entry cases were dismissed.

A status hearing in the rape case is scheduled for Jan. 10.
Defense attorney Lisa Hamer declined to comment on the charge, but said,
"criminal law and immigration definitely intersect and nowadays it should
be the responsibility of every criminal defense attorney to know the possible
ramifications in the immigration courts."

Nationwide, 52 percent of
all federal prosecutions in the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30 were for entry
or re-entry without legal permission and similar immigration violations,
according to Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse at Syracuse University.

It's not unusual to see
immigrants with multiple entries without legal permission, said David Trevino,
a Topeka immigration attorney who has provided legal advice to
Martinez-Maldonado's family. Most of Martinez-Maldonado's family lives in
Mexico, but he also has family in the United States, and the family is
"devastated," Trevino said.

"(President-elect
Donald Trump) can build a wall 100 feet high and 50 feet deep, but it is not
going to keep family members separated. So if someone is deported and they have
family members here ... they will find a way back — whether it is through the
air, under a wall, through the coast of the United States," Trevino said.

He declined to comment on
Martinez-Maldonado's criminal history and pending charge.

Records obtained by AP
show Martinez-Maldonado had eight voluntary removals before his first
deportation in 2010, which was followed by another voluntary removal that same
year. He was deported five more times between 2011 and 2013.

In 2013,
Martinez-Maldonado was charged with entering without legal permission, a
misdemeanor, and subsequently deported in early 2014 after serving his
sentence. He was deported again a few months later, as well as twice in 2015 —
including the last one in October 2015 after he had served his second sentence,
the records show.

ICE said in an emailed
statement that when it encounters a person who's been deported multiple times
or has a significant criminal history and was removed, it routinely presents
those cases to the U.S. attorney's office for possible criminal charges.

Cosme Lopez, spokesman for the U.S. attorney's office in
Arizona, declined comment on why prosecutors twice dismissed felony re-entry
after deportation charges against Martinez-Maldonado in 2013 and 2015 in
exchange for guilty pleas on misdemeanor entry charges.

What can realistically be
done? Building a wall is only part of the solution. Reforming the criminal
justice system so that illegal aliens will be dealt with swiftly and fairly
must be part of any immigration enforcement package passed by Congress so that
people like Martinez-Maldonado won't slip through the cracks.

It's too late to help a
13 year old girl, brutally assaulted by someone who should never have been here
in the first place. But with Republicans in control of Congress and a president
willing to do what's necessary to keep illegal aliens out of the country,
hopefully, travesties like rape and murder of innocents by illegals will become
far less common.

Mexican man charged with raping a 13-

year-old girl on a bus had NINETEEN

deportations and removals

Tomas Martinez-Maldonado, 38, charged with a felony in September 27 attack

He has been deported 10 times and voluntarily removed from the U.S. another nine times since 2003

Martinez-Maldonado had eight voluntary removals before his first deportation in 2010, which was followed by another voluntary removal that same year

He was deported five more times between 2011 and 2013

In 2013 he was charged with entering without legal permission and subsequently deported in early 2014

He was deported again a few months later, as well as twice in 2015, most recently in October 2015

A Mexican man accused of raping a 13-year-old girl on a Greyhound bus that traveled through Kansas had been deported 10 times and voluntarily removed from the U.S. another nine times since 2003, records obtained by The Associated Press show.

Three U.S. Republican senators — including Kansas' Jerry Moran and Pat Roberts — demanded this month that the Department of Homeland Security provide immigration records for 38-year-old Tomas Martinez-Maldonado, who is charged with a felony in the alleged Sept. 27 attack aboard a bus in Geary County.

He is being held in the Geary County jail in Junction City, which is about 120 miles west of Kansas City.

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Tomas Martinez-Maldonado a Mexican national accused of raping a 13-year-old girl on a Greyhound bus that traveled through Kansas had been deported 10 times and voluntarily removed from the U.S. nine times since 2003

U.S. Sen. Charles Grassley, from Iowa and chairman of the judiciary committee, co-signed a Dec. 9 letter with Moran and Roberts to Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson, calling it 'an extremely disturbing case' and questioning how Martinez-Maldonado was able to re-enter and remain in the country.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said it has placed a detainer — a request to turn Martinez-Maldonado over to ICE custody before he is released — with Geary County. ICE declined to discuss his specific case beyond its October statement regarding the 10 deportations.

Court filings show Martinez-Maldonado has two misdemeanor convictions for entering without legal permission in cases prosecuted in 2013 and 2015 in U.S. District Court of Arizona, where he was sentenced to serve 60 days and 165 days respectively.

A status hearing in the rape case is scheduled for Jan. 10. Defense attorney Lisa Hamer declined to comment on the charge, but said, 'criminal law and immigration definitely intersect and nowadays it should be the responsibility of every criminal defense attorney to know the possible ramifications in the immigration courts.'

Nationwide, 52 percent of all federal prosecutions in the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30 were for entry or re-entry without legal permission and similar immigration violations, according to Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse at Syracuse University.

It's not unusual to see immigrants with multiple entries without legal permission, said David Trevino, a Topeka immigration attorney also representing Martinez-Maldonado. Most of Martinez-Maldonado's family lives in Mexico, but he also has family in the United States, and the family is 'devastated,' Trevino said.

'(President-elect Donald Trump) can build a wall 100 feet high and 50 feet deep, but it is not going to keep family members separated. So if someone is deported and they have family members here ... they will find a way back — whether it is through the air, under a wall, through the coast of the United States,' Trevino said.

He declined to comment on his client's criminal history and pending charge.

Records obtained by AP show Martinez-Maldonado had eight voluntary removals before his first deportation in 2010, which was followed by another voluntary removal that same year. He was deported five more times between 2011 and 2013.

In 2013, Martinez-Maldonado was charged with entering without legal permission, a misdemeanor, and subsequently deported in early 2014 after serving his sentence. He was deported again a few months later, as well as twice in 2015 — including the last one in October 2015 after he had served his second sentence, the records show.

ICE said in an emailed statement when it encounters a person who's been deported multiple times or has a significant criminal history and was removed, it routinely presents those cases to the U.S. attorney's office for possible criminal charges.

Cosme Lopez, spokesman for the U.S. attorney's office for the District of Arizona, declined comment on why prosecutors twice dismissed felony re-entry after deportation charges against Martinez-Maldonado in 2013 and 2015 in exchange for guilty pleas on misdemeanor entry charges.

Arizona ranks third in the nation — behind only the Southern District of Texas and the Western District of Texas — for the number of immigration prosecutions among the nation's 94 federal judicial districts for the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30, TRAC records show.

Moran told the AP in an emailed statement that the immigration system is 'broken.'

'There must be serious legislative efforts to address U.S. immigration policy, and we must have the ability to identify, prosecute and deport illegal aliens who display violent tendencies before they have an opportunity to perpetrate these crimes in the United States,' he said.

The Department of Homeland Security released its year-end immigration enforcement report, and the numbers show that sanctuary cities refused to hand over to the federal government more than 2,000 illegal aliens in their custody. Instead, the illegals were released back on to the streets.

Two thousand illegals doesn't sound like a large number – until you recall that the Obama administration promised to deport only illegal aliens who are "convicted criminals, national security risks or people who are ignoring recent orders of deportation." In short, sanctuary cities set free more than 2,000 aliens who represent the worst of the worst.

Led by Philadelphia and Cook County in Illinois, which refuse all cooperation with the federal government, sanctuaries are likely to be one of the thorniest issues confronting Donald Trump as president. He has vowed penalties for defying immigration laws.

Mr. Trump’s selection to be attorney general, Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama, has also expressed support for blocking some federal funds from sanctuary cities — and even suggested bringing criminal charges against them.

The Obama administration has also called for sanctuary cities and localities to cooperate, saying communities that refuse to turn over illegal immigrants wanted by federal agents are making the streets less safe and causing more hassle for immigration agents.

“Declined detainers result in convicted criminals being released back into U.S. communities with the potential to re-offend,” U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said in its 2016 review released Friday.

“Detainer” is the term ICE uses when it asks a local police or sheriff’s department to hold an illegal immigrant for pickup by federal agents. A declined detainer means the locals refused, and instead released the person onto the streets.

ICE has been making some progress. In fiscal year 2015, there were 395 jurisdictions that acted as sanctuaries, refusing to turn over a total of 8,546 illegal immigrants that were being sought by ICE agents. In 2016, the number of jurisdictions dropped to 279, and the total number of illegal immigrants shielded was down by more than three-quarters to 2,008. It’s not a straight 1-to-1 comparison, however, because ICE likely stopped asking in 2016 for detainers on some illegal immigrants in communities that have gained reputations for refusing to cooperate.

Of the 25 largest jurisdictions that offered sanctuary a few years ago, 21 of them have started to work with ICE in some capacity since Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson made a major push to establish better cooperation. Still, even those 21 municipalities don’t fully cooperate, officials acknowledged.

Some, such as Philadelphia and Cook County, home of Chicago, balk at most requests.

Asked over the summer, Philadelphia officials insisted that they attempt to cooperate on “violent criminals or suspected terrorists,” but they didn’t answer specific Justice Department allegations that the city refused cooperation. Cook County, meanwhile, didn’t respond to repeated requests for comment.

The number of sanctuary cities is augmented by universities who are refusing to cooperate with the federal government in handing over any illegal aliens. But authorities face the same difficulity in cutting off federal funds to schools as they do in denying funding for sanctuary cities: it is extremely difficult to separate funds used to care for illegals from general purpose funds. It is probable that the courts would take a dim view of denying money to cities and schools because of this difficulty.

But the effort must be made, if only to protect citizens whose own governments put in danger. Regardless of what Congress does about sanctuary cities, it appears that President Trump will challenge their defiance of federal law and attempt to bring them to heel in order to address the crisis at our borders.

ICE continues to drop off illegal aliens at Texas bus stops

Illegal aliens captured at the border continue to be released at bus stops in Texas with orders to appear before an immigration judge at a future date. The flood of illegals has reached levels not seen since the record year of 2014, with tens of thousands of women and unaccompanied children flowing across the border.

The government refuses to inform local authorities of this catch and release program.

Bus station employees are reporting that illegal immigrants continue pour into the Texas border town of Laredo. They have seen a holding center for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) carrying between 20 and 40 undocumented women during at least five bus trips.

The local NBC affiliate, 8KGNS-TV first heard that 400 migrants were headed to the border city but it has been difficult to get a concrete number of released individuals from the agency. Officials report that these women meet certain release eligibility requirements set by the federal government.

Local officials say that federal representatives did not notify anyone in the City of Laredo, and that a similar problem was created in 2014 when there was a surge of Central Americans in the Texas border town.

What is adding to the flood of migrants crossing the border from Central America is the fact that some countries are refusing to repatriate their own.

Breitbart Texas reported in late October that illegal immigrants, mostly from Central America, were flooding across the southern border in advance of the 2016 presidential election. The numbers reported by patrol agents were at, or above, historic 2014 levels. On October 18, Breitbart Texas reported that a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) report showed that the number of illegal border crossing apprehensions of Family Unit Aliens (FMUA) from Central America and Mexico hit the highest level on record–an all-time high with 77,674 crossings in FY 2016. Unaccompanied Alien Children (UAC) apprehensions were at 59,692, second to the 2014 historic mark of 69,970.

This is a clear case of U.S. domestic politics driving the wave of illegals crossing the border:

“Cartel connected human smugglers are telling people they need to get across the border now,” U.S. Border Patrol Agent Chris Cabrera told Breitbart Texas in his capacity as president of National Border Patrol Council Local 3307 in October. “When our agents ask the illegal immigrants who have surrendered at the border, they tell us they have been told they have to be here by a certain deadline to qualify for amnesty from Hillary Clinton, or they must come now because Donald Trump will build a wall and they won’t be able to cross.”

The cartels aren't stupid. They know just where our vulnerable points are along the border and take full advantage of that knowledge.

Trump can change this policy his first day in office. It's a question of how the chief executive and the departments under his control choose to interpret immigration law. The Obama administration chose an extraordinarily broad interpretation of the law while exercising maximum prosecutorial discretion, allowing hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens what amounts to a free ride by releasing them after giving them a date to appear before a judge.

The courts have ruled we can't detain families with children for very long, which hugely complicates enforcement. President Obama continued to promise throughout his tenure that the flood of illegals from Central America would not be allowed to stay, that they would be sent home. The reality is, with the courts preventing detention, Central American nations refusing to take their people back, and ICE policies allowing illegals to go free, border towns are at the government's mercy when it comes to dealing with the problem.